Papa-pepper has 72 reputation and over 1100 followers.

almost 300 votes on this post, and only $4 profit.

Proof of followers:

Pfunk is definitely getting his wang worked on by other whales, and this is on a consistent basis, just go look at the upvotes on his posts, notice a trend in the top names? I don't know if there is, but I can almost bet there is the same people upvoting pfunk's posts.

I do pretty good myself, and I love steemit, but, I mean, honestly, I don't care, just pointing out that the power houses of this platform plan on keeping themselves in power.

EDIT: I was curious so I went and looked and I was right almost every post with a payout of over $200 is upvoted by the same whales, and these same whales, are the same whales that downvote A LOT OF MINNOWS posts for unknown reasons.